Go In and Out the Window: An Illustrated Songbook For Children [B0787]

1987 HCDJ in nice condition. A fun introduction to music and art appreciation! In this unusual book, sixty-one classic childhood songs are imaginatively coupled with full-color photographs of treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Work songs, play songs, nursery songs, nonsense rhymes, lullabies, and ballads are matched with paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, objects d'art, textiles, and musical instruments. The songs, arranged and edited by Dan Fox, are easy to play - accompanied by guitar chords, and suitable for the piano, organ, guitar, violin, or recorder. A fingering chart for the guitar chords is included. Commentary by Claude Marks, artist, writer, and popular lecturer at the Museum, helps young people enjoy and appreciate what they see and sing. See photos for a list of the songs included. Note: Lyrics include just the first verse for each song; additional verses are generally available online.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is a beautiful song book with lovely illustrations. Makes me wish I played guitar!"; "It may be easy for music arrangers to create simple arrangements of pieces with chords as thin as three parts, but what is Not easy, is to make them very musical and artistically deep. That is where this book excels. I use it for my younger, beginning piano students who have learned their first level of music reading skills, and need to apply their chord reading skills to real songs. This book has a wide selection of (almost) all American, children's folk songs. The kids really like the songs, the art work inspires, the pieces are mostly in three part chords as above (With only a few exceptions where chords may be thicker), and very nicely done. A great book!."